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...artist and the subject of a wide variety of works from sketches to oil paintings. The earliest of the six paintings, “Carmen Gaudin” (1884) is a formal, stark portrayal of the redheaded model, who wears a black dress and poses against a black background. She is not confrontational; her gaze falls somewhere above the head of the viewer. In “Carmen Gaudin in the Artist’s Studio” (1888), the subject stares directly at the viewer from a seat in a room cluttered with colorful canvases and furniture, wearing...
...would be a terrific pick to fit those criteria. If Summers plans to turn Cambridge-Allston into BioMed Valley, he needs more scientific expertise to back him up and iron out the details. Varmus, who did graduate work in English at Harvard, has the benefit of a broad academic background and solid reputation—in fact, his name was bantered about not so long ago for the job Summers currently holds. All the business savvy of Daniel, Harper, Houghton, Rubin and Summers doesn’t matter unless they have scholars with a broad base of experience to work...
Hour six. The flight is more than halfway done and the cast of characters have all but faded into the background with the whir of the engine. Glamourpuss drifts off to sleep knowing that when the plane touches down, the neighborhood will once again become a random group of people, each with a different story to tell and a different trip to take...
...commission report, a scathing critique of the FBI's slipshod internal security practices, will cite a glaring lapse first disclosed in the book "The Spy Next Door," co-authored by this reporter and former TIME correspondent Ann Blackman: if FBI background investigators had looked at a widely available commercial database that lists vehicle registrations, they would have discovered that in August 1991, Hanssen bought a Mercedes for his paramour, stripper Priscilla Galey, and registered it in her name but at his home address. In fact, the FBI didn't find out about Hanssen's extramarital - and pricey - relationship with Galey...
...Webster commission will recommend a radical revamping of the FBI background check system, with more extensive disclosure and more rigorous probing by specialists in reviewing financial data. The commission believes the bureau dropped the ball in the Hanssen case because there was no unified, professional security structure. Instead, background checks were handled by multiple outside contractors who assigned crucial tasks to generalists inexpert at tearing apart financial disclosures...